Medical Research: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?

Response: There is substantial controversy and a lot of interest on the health implications of metabolically healthy obesity, that is, subjects who are obese but do not have metabolic abnormalities in spite of their high body mass index. The risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) among obese patients without metabolic abnormalities is unknown.

In this cohort study of South Korean men and women, metabolically healthy overweight and obese participants had increased incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) compared with normal-weight participants.

Medical Research: What should clinicians and patients take away from your report?

Response: Physicians should monitor metabolically healthy obese and overweight patients for Chronic Kidney Disease and counsel them about maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle.

Medical Research: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this study?

Response: Adipocytokines or adipose tissue-derived factors such as leptin, adiponectin, tumor-necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-6 etc may be involved in the pathogenesis of development of chronic kidney disease. The measures of these markers associated with excessive adiposity will benefit future research efforts.

Also, in our study, we used a single assessment of BMI at baseline and did not incorporate changes in BMI or other changes in metabolic health status during the follow-up. Incorporation of the change of BMI and metabolic health during follow-up time will benefit future research efforts.

Medical Research: Is there anything else you would like to add?

Response: Our study suggests that metabolically healthy obese individuals are at an increased risk of chronic kidney disease. In prior studies, metabolically healthy overweight has been reported to be associated with the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, indicating that metabolically healthy overweight is not a harmless condition and that the obese phenotype, regardless of metabolic abnormalities, can adversely affect health outcome.

Well I find the entire glut of health vs obesity and so forth interesting. If obesity was so life limiting why didn’t mother nature eliminate it from the gene pool? This should have been done 1000s of years ago. How many people live over the age of 100? Life limiting? How much life is really limited? Does it mean you die at 24yrs of age if your are over weight? or does it mean you might live to 80 vs 90. I think using the words “life limiting” is extremely broad and essentially unwise. Nobody knows what their bio clocks are going to click to. My son died at 15yrs of age due to a seizure. So all of you are going to convince me that obesity is so severe a life limiter. How about smoking? That’s pretty life limiting. Its AS WELL KNOWN as obesity but I see 100X more articles on obesity. Another good point speaking of smoking. How about that 2 pack a day air pollution? ! pack a day air pollution? How about one cig a day air pollution that is known for killing millions world wide. One article on China having a “day” of problems mentioned in years or pollution that kills 100k a people a year. Where are the alerts on this? I am just confused. Life limiting. Yeah right. We have BIGGER problems than a few fat people as far as health goes.

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